Graeme’s been doing some very cool stuff for 2.0 with a new extension to the Criteria query DSL, adding a where method. Check out the updated docs for the syntax and example queries – it’s a very intuitive and fluent approach to querying.

Mr. Haki is back after a bit of a hiatus with five new “Groovy Goodness” posts:

Lots of jobs this week. There are a few reposts but most are new – it’s a good time to be a Grails developer.

Starting this week these posts will be translated into Italian thanks to Luca Canducci. Many thanks to Luca for volunteering to do this translation, and of course to Aitor Alzola, Jian Hu, and Paulo Pereira for the Spanish, Chinese, and Portuguese translations.

If you want to keep up with these “This Week in Grails” posts you can access them directly via their category link or in an RSS reader with the feed for just these posts.

external-config-reload version 0.4.5. Polls for changes to external configuration files (files added to grails.config.locations), reloads the configuration when a change has occurred, and notifies specified plugins by firing the onConfigChange event in each

geolocation version 0.2. Adds HTML5 geolocation support and offers some utility methods to calculate distances and range checks